Salma Hayek

For some of us, it's impossible to believe that the upheavals of the mid-1990s — the Rodney King riots, the O.J. Simpson trial — happened over 20 years ago. So Guillermo Reyes' "Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown," now in a sprightly revival with Pride Films and Plays, does have a time-capsule quality to it. Not all of the vignettes in this collection of monologues hit home as strongly as they probably once did, but Nelson Rodriguez's sensitive and febrile performance under the supple direction of Sandra Marquez nails the confusion of characters who are twice displaced — as immigrants and as gay men — from the American dream. Our main...

Salma Hayek returns to the big (and on-demand) screen in the revenge action film "Everly."
Hayek stars as a femme fatal that has to fight off wave-after-wave of hired killers sent by an ex-lover to kill her. All the action takes place in her...

NBC is going all out for the Golden Globes.
The network offers a preview special at 10 p.m. Friday, a red-carpet special at 7 p.m. Sunday and three hours of awards at 8 p.m. Sunday. Tina Fey and Amy Poehler host for the third consecutive year.
The...

Salma Hayek produced and voices a character in "Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet," an animated film made from the celebrated Lebanese poet's book of verse and philosophy. The Mexico-born actress and producer, who has long been outspoken on topics...

Inspired by the cult classic vampire flick from 1996 starring Quentin Tarantino and George Clooney, "From Dusk Till Dawn" the TV series continues the story of the bank-robbing Gecko brothers and their encounters with a pack of vampires south...

For some of us, it's impossible to believe that the upheavals of the mid-1990s — the Rodney King riots, the O.J. Simpson trial — happened over 20 years ago. So Guillermo Reyes' "Men on the Verge of a His-Panic Breakdown," now in a sprightly...

CANNES, France -- The French had a very good night at the 68th Cannes Film Festival. The Palme d’Or went to director Jacques Audiard’s hard-charging drama “Dheepan,” about a trio of Sri Lankan refugees posing as a family and making precarious new lives...

In “Tale of Tales,” one of two competition titles premiering on Day 1 of the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the sight of Salma Hayek in queenly Elizabethan garb, devouring a sea serpent’s bloody, boiled heart, suggests an Atkins diet for royals. It isn’t. Nor...

The 68th Cannes Film Festival will feature a lesbian love story starring Cate Blanchett, a Shakespearean tragedy with Michael Fassbender and films from cinema heavyweights including China's Jia Zhangke, Italy's Paolo Sorrentino and the United States'...

The Cannes Film Festival on Thursday unveiled a lineup studded with both high-profile veterans and intriguing newcomers — and that's before you even reached the vaunted competition section.
Woody Allen will unveil his existential comedy “Irrational...

They were impossible to miss — the millennial power set, gliding down a Beverly Hilton hotel staircase, headed by ringleader Taylor Swift.
Even if she weren't the most famous 25-year-old on the planet, the pop star would have been easy to spot walking...

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler had some solid Bill Cosby and North Korea bits, then, like “The interview’s” box office prospects, magically disappeared. Ricky Gervais tried his Andy Kaufman routine, and almost had us when he tried to re-create an Adele Dazeem...

Mere minutes after the curtain came down on the 72nd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, celebrities began streaming into a post-show bash staged by Weinstein Co. and Netflix in a massive tent beside the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Amy Adams arrived, Darren Le...

The Golden Globes are the most reliably fizzy awards show of the year, typically fueled by a mix of the Champagne flowing at the Beverly Hilton Hotel and more irreverent hosting than the Oscars. On Sunday night, even as somber world events and a lack of...

Robert Downey Jr., Salma Hayek, Kevin Hart and Kate Hudson have been tapped as presenters at the 72nd Golden Globe Awards on Sunday.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. on Monday is expected to announce those presenters and others for the ceremony, which...

Zoe Saldana has finally acknowledged that she's pregnant -- and all it took to get her to 'fess up was a looming bucket of ice-cold water.
She was, of course, called out to participate in the Ice Bucket Challenge to raise awareness for ALS, or Lou...

High spirits and good times are hard to come by in "Muppets Most Wanted," the anxious follow-up to the commercially successful 2011 reboot ("The Muppets") and the seventh Muppet sequel to follow in the animal tracks of "The Muppet...

In what might be an industry first, movie director Robert Rodriguez ("Desperado," "Machete," "Sin City") has his own TV channel.
Born out of a commitment by Comcast, as it acquired an interest in NBCUniversal, to carry...

Robert Rodriguez helped ignite an independent film movement in the 1990s with his film "El Mariachi," shot for a mere $7,000, before moving on to blockbuster fare such as "Sin City" and the "Spy Kids" franchise. Now the...